A federal judge tossed out a defamation lawsuit from porn star Stormy Daniels against President Donald Trump on Monday, saying that words used by the president in a tweet directed at Daniels constituted “‘rhetorical hyperbole’ normally associated with politics and public discourse in the United States.”

CNN noted that “Daniels sued Trump after he said Daniels’ story of a man threatening her not to come forward with her story of her alleged affair with Trump was ‘a total con job.'”

A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)! https://t.co/9Is7mHBFda

“The Court agrees with Mr. Trump’s argument because the tweet in question constitutes ‘rhetorical hyperbole’ normally associated with politics and public discourse in the United States,” District Judge S. James Otero wrote. “The First Amendment protects this type of rhetorical statement.”

And to add brutal payback to the dismissal, the judge is forcing Daniels to pay President Trump’s legal fees. (And his lawyers ‘aint cheap)

In a statement, Trump’s attorney Charles J. Harder said: “No amount of spin or commentary by Stormy Daniels or her lawyer, Mr. Avenatti, can truthfully characterize today’s ruling in any way other than total victory for President Trump and total defeat for Stormy Daniels.”

The school’s Bias Protocol Board said the project creates an “environment” where “students from a Muslim background would feel singled out and/or harassed.” As a result, Ripon students will not be allowed to hang flyers as part of their vigil to remember the victims of Sept. 11.

According to YAF, administrators claimed that one of their objections is “because radical Islamist terrorism ‘represents a small percentage of the terrorist attacks that happened to this country, and they don’t represent the full gamut, and they show a very small picture of a specific religion or nationality instead of the larger viewpoint.’”

“This attempt by Ripon College’s ‘bias protocol board’ to sanitize the truth out of remembering the anniversary of September 11 proves the necessity of YAF’s iconic 9/11: Never Forget Project, as well as the need for bold YAF activists,” Young America’s Foundation Spokesman Spencer Brown told Red Alert Politics. “YAF’s leadership in creating meaningful memorials on this important date in our nation’s history ensures that the rising generation remembers the 2,977 innocent lives lost. The administrators’ reliance on feelings rather than facts betrays their intention to cower from the truth rather than highlight the scourge of radical Islamist terror for what it is: evil.”

The Ripon handbook states that the college is “committed to the free speech and open exchange of ideas and views, as reflected in the institution’s Core Values” but this commitment “requires the confrontation of challenging issues in the context of civil discourse and intellectual inquiry.” Students can combat bias by “participating in on-campus programming around multiculturalism, diversity and social justice.”

The Ripon Center for Diversity and Inclusion boasts of its programming surrounding International Month, Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month and LGBT History Month, and “Culture Week,” yet bans the “social activism” of a patriotic event remembering the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

The handbook goes on to explain and vaguely define a “bias Incident” as a “behavior or act—verbal, written, or physical—which is personally directed against or targets an individual or group based on perceived or actual characteristics.”

While hate crimes should be punished and bias generally creates a negative environment for learning and living, Americans should absolutely be biased against our enemies, especially terrorist organizations like al Qaeda or the Islamic State.

Ripon’s censorship of YAF’s memorial is a chilling example of speech suppression, where a bipartisan, patriotic event is being shut down due to the anonymous objections of a few. It’s also an example of the shocking anti-American sentiment taking place in U.S. higher education.

Colton Haab is the heroic ROTC student who shielded students during the Parkland, Florida shooting, who said he bowed out of a virulently anti-gun CNN “town hall” on Wednesday night after the network tried to “script” his questions.

On Thursday CNN essentially called Haab a liar, saying “there is absolutely no truth to this. CNN did not provide or script questions for anyone in last night’s town hall, nor have we ever.”

The claim was suspect to begin with, given CNN’s long history of town hall plants and scripted questions literally held by planted audience members in the past:

2016 Presidential Debate town hall participant with her emailed “question” from CNN

Well Thursday night, Haab wasn’t backing down. In fact he named names. On Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” with host Tucker Carlson he alleged that CNN producer Carrie Stevenson, who is the executive producer for Jake Tapper’s “State of the Union” television show, was the person who censored him.

“What had happened was four days ago I had gotten contacted by a lady named Carrie Stevenson from CNN,” Haab said. “She had asked me originally to just write a speech, it was going to be at the town hall at the BB&T Center, so I agreed, I felt like it would be the right thing to do, to be able to go to speak my part as well as open eyes to a few things that I thought that could make this situation a little bit better.”

Haab then went on to describe how Stevenson kept reaching out to him and kept changing what she wanted him to do to prepare for the town hall, from writing a speech to writing questions.

Just hours before the town hall, according to Haab, Stevenson told him that he could ask one question, they had already written that question out for him and she told him that he had to “stick to the script.”

When Haab confirmed, Carlson pressed “but that seems dishonest?” Haab agreed, and said that was one of the reasons he decided not to attend the town hall — adding that he thought CNN had also written questions for the other students.

Despite the so-called “Trump Bump,” I’ve learned that CNN, a key property in AT&T’s planned takeover of CNN’s parent company, Time Warner, must make big cuts on the digital side, with at least 50 jobs scheduled to be eliminated this week, according to people familiar with the matter, who noted the exact number could still be in flux.

The cuts will reportedly affect employees who work in “premium businesses” including CNN Money, video, product, tech and social publishing.

And there may be “many more layoffs” to come.

“Several high profile digital initiatives are being scaled back”, including CNN’s virtual reality productions and its efforts on Snapchat, where CNN recently nixed a live daily webcast after just four months. CNN’s business-oriented MoneyStream app, as BuzzFeed reported earlier this month, is in the gutter as well. A team that works on the digital extensions of documentary-style TV shows, such as Anthony Bourdain’sParts Unknown and Lisa Ling’sThis is Life, as well as the Brooke Baldwin series American Woman, is also being reorganized.

The budget measures seem to take some heat off the ambitious digital futurism that CNN was preaching just under a year ago. A March 2017 Hollywood Reportercover story portrayed the network as taking on Vice and BuzzFeed in the battle for digital dominance.

CNN reportedly “missed its target by tens of millions of dollars”, according to Vanity Fair.

Obama appointee and former CIA director John Brennan is the target of a perjury investigation by the House Intelligence Committee, according to an exclusive Real Clear Investigations report.

Chairman Devin Nunes is turning his attention to the role the CIA played in promoting the Steele dossier. The FBI and Justice Department relied heavily on the unverified dossier in their applications for a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign.

Brennan said under oath that he didn’t know who commissioned the document and that the dossier was not used to come to the conclusion that Russia had meddled in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Brennan also swore that he did not know who commissioned the anti-Trump research document (excerpt here), even though senior national security and counterintelligence officials at the Justice Department and FBI knew the previous year that the dossier was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Last week, Nunes (R-Calif.) released a declassified memo exposing surveillance “abuses” by the Obama DOJ and FBI in their investigation of Trump’s ties to Russia. It said the agencies relied heavily on the uncorroborated dossier to take out a warrant to secretly surveil a Trump adviser in the heat of the 2016 presidential election, even though they were aware the underlying “intelligence” supporting the wiretap order was political opposition research funded by Clinton allies – a material fact they concealed from FISA court judges in four separate applications.

Nunes plans to soon release a separate report detailing the Obama State Department’s role in creating and disseminating the dossier – which has emerged as the foundation of the Obama administration’s Russia “collusion” investigation. Among other things, the report will identify Obama-appointed diplomats who worked with partisan operatives close to Hillary Clinton to help ex-British spy Christopher Steele compile the dossier, sources say.

“Those are the first two phases” of Nunes'[s] multipart inquiry, a senior investigator said. “In phase three, the involvement of the intelligence community will come into sharper focus.”

The aide, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said Nunes will focus on Brennan as well as President Obama’s first CIA director, Leon Panetta, along with the former president’s intelligence czar, James Clapper, and national security adviser, Susan Rice, and security adviser-turned U.N. ambassador Samantha Power, among other intelligence officials.

“John Brennan did more than anyone to promulgate the dirty dossier,” the investigator said. “He politicized and effectively weaponized what was false intelligence against Trump.”

Attempts to reach Brennan for comment were unsuccessful.

Expect a lot of “I don’t knows” and “I can’t recalls” from Brennan during questioning. It will be very hard to prove he lied when he said he didn’t know the provenance of the dossier, nor was he aware of the importance attached to the document in the CIA’s analysis of Russian meddling.

But you can bet he is going to be squirming. The whole crew – Brennan, Panetta, Power, Rice, and Clapper – may all plead the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying. That will only make them look guiltier.

But it will serve the purpose of stymieing the investigation — for a short time. They hope the Democrats will take over the House in November, thus making all these investigations into anyone but Trump campaign officials disappear. But if Pelosi & Co. fail, then the hammer will fall on them…BIG time.

Former President Barack Obama’s “official” portrait for the National Portrait Gallery was unveiled on Monday, and the audience (and Twitter) was as befuddled by the “oddness” of the painting as they were at Mrs. Obama’s portrait (which looked nothing like her) some time before:

But when TRN looked into the past of artist Kehinde Wiley, it wasn’t “odd” but deeply disturbing.

Turns out Wiley has a great fondness for painting black women beheading white women…

What the…??

Lucian Wintrich describes how Wiley “explains” the sick portraits:

Both beheading pieces are titled “Judith beheading Holofernes”, referencing a story in the Book of Judith, which involves a beautiful woman who seduces an invading general before he is able to destroy their land, gets him drunk, and then decapitates him.

Oh, that’s just great. Here’s another White female “devil” getting what she deserves:

Can you imagine for a second if George W. Bush, or any other former president, decided on a painter who was famous for depicting white people killing black people to paint his official portrait? It’s hard to imagine, right? Yea, that’s because it’s disgusting.

Users on Twitter expressed outrage at commissioning an artist with such obvious racist leanings to paint the portrait of an American president:

A.K. Hassan, a “refugee” from Somalia who arrived in Minneapolis in 2008, and whose only “employment” was as a “community organizer,” has now positioned himself within the American political system.

Hassan was elected to the District 3 seat on the Minneapolis Park Board in the November 2016 elections, and took his oath of office on January 2 – with his left hand placed firmly over the Koran. (Scroll down to see video.)

After he took his oath, promising to uphold the Constitution of the United States, Hassan then opened his Koran and declared, “In the name of the Allah….” and said “Allah has honored me… so be careful to serve all the needs of all the creation of Allah.”

Hassan was a former teen coordinator for the Franklin Ave. library. He serves as chair of the Ventura Village neighborhood group in the Phillips Neighborhood. He’s worked as a community organizer for Minneapolis Open Streets. And he’s been the chair of the Minnesota DFL Somali-American Caucus.

In an Instagram post after he had taken his oath of office, Hassan wrote in broken English:

Tonight, I’m supper excited to took the oath of office and being elected as the vice president of MPRB. It is pleasure to serve the people of district 3 and the City of Minneapolis. I’m looking forward to serve with remarkable commissioners to ensure our parks serve everyone regardless where they live in our city. Thanks to everyone who came out to support. Especially the chair of MN DFL, Ken Martin and our newly mayor Jacob Frey. I have to give shout to our president of the MPRB, Brad Bourn! Congratulations to my fellow commissioners, Kale, Londel, Jono, Chris, LaTrisha, Steffanie, and Meg!

Below is the video of his swearing in. His remarks about Allah begin at the 11:50 minute mark. His term as commission on the Parks and Recreation Board is for four years.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, fell for a spoof by Russian pranksters who promised in a call with the top House Democrat to furnish him with“kompromat”– compromising dirt–on President Donald Trump — including naked photos of The Donald.

Schiff, the chief Congressional proponent of the Trump-Russia collusion fraud, is so obsessed that he is desperate for there to be any connection involving Trump and Russia that he fell for Russian pranksters claiming to have graphic proof of an “affair” between Trump and a famous Russian model

They told Schiff that Trump had sex with Russian glamour model Olga Buzova after a Miss Universe pageant in 2013.

In the call they said Putin had been passed naked pictures of Trump to blackmail the now-president with, and that Trump had used secret codes for talks with Russians.

Old Schiffty even told his staff to collect classified materials from the pranksters — for the FBI!

The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee was the victim of a prank phone call by Russian comedians who offered to give him ‘compromising’ dirt on Donald Trump – including nude photos of the president and a Russian reality show star.

DailyMail.com can disclose that after the prank, his staff engaged in correspondence with what they thought was a Ukrainian politician to try to obtain the ‘classified’ material promised on the call.

On an audio recording of the prank call posted online, Adam Schiff can be heard discussing the committee’s Russia investigation and increasingly bizarre allegations about Trump with a man who claimed to be Andriy Parubiy, the chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament.

Russian glamour model Olga Buzova

The call was actually from two Russian comedians nicknamed ‘Vovan’ and ‘Lexus’ who have become notorious for their phony calls to high-ranking American officials and celebrities, including UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Elton John.

Its existence was first reported by The Atlantic but not how a staff member working for the minority on the House Intelligence Committee pursued the information after the call.

Schiff’s office later claimed they “knew” it was a hoax, after being informed by the DailyMail.

But in a recording of the eight minute conversation, Schiff clearly seemed to take the call seriously — taking notes and asking for spellings of the parties involved in the hoax – and emails from the Democrat’s staff to the fake politician afterwards said he had found it ‘productive’.

Excited as a schoolboy Schiff believed their tale of the Trump photos:

“There were pictures of naked Trump,” the prankster said.

Schiff, per the Atlantic report, “betrayed no emotion.”

“And so Putin was made aware of the availability of the compromising material?” Schiff asked the man he thought was a Ukrainian leader.

“Yes, of course,” the prankster replied, adding that Putin told Trump “all those compromising materials will never be released if Trump will cancel all Russian sanctions.”

Schiff “furiously” took notes and later arranged for his staff to obtain the scandalous “classified information.”

Here is the full audio of Schiffty on the call with the Russian pranksters:

‘I’ll be in touch with the FBI about this. And we’ll make arrangements with your staff. I think it probably would be best to provide these materials both to our committee and to the FBI,’ said Schiff during the conversation, which lasted around eight minutes according to the recording posted to YouTube.

Hillary’s phony Russia dossier has similar salacious, unverified claims that President Trump was gallivanting with Russian hookers in Moscow.

According to the “intelligence” documents: Trump disliked Obama so much that he hired two Russian hookers to piss on a bed that Obama slept on in Russia.

Trump partook in “golden showers” in Russia with prostitutes on a bed Obama once slept on… Russia then blackmailed Trump, not by asking for money or influence in his business deals, but by forcing him to run for president against all odds and win?

Stupid liberals will believe anything.

The liberal media is CENSORING this story…PLEASE SHARE THIS everywhere to expose the HILARIOUS TRUTH…

Colts Linebacker Edwin Jackson and his driver were allegedly killed by a drunk driving, illegal alien Sunday morning near Indianapolis. The suspect fled the scene on foot after crashing into their vehicle. Indiana State Police officers arrested the reported driver later that morning.

As TRN reported Sunday, Police arrested a man who identified himself as Alex Cabrera Gonsales, a 37-year-old Mexican national, after he crashed his black Ford F-150 into a car parked along Interstate 70 near Indianapolis, according to a statement obtained from the Indiana State Police. The driver of the car, 54-year-old Jeffrey Monroe, and his passenger, 26-year-old Indianapolis Colts Linebacker Edwin Jackson, were both killed in the crash.

But Monday we just found out that the illegal lied about his identity, as they so often do.

And his true identity underscores the urgency in building a Southern border wall, and massively increasing interior enforcement again illegals, as proposed by President Trump.

Detectives discovered the driver gave police false information about his identity.

Investigators said the man’s name is actually Manuel Orrego-Savala, a citizen of Guatemala.

A background investigation revealed Orrego-Savala has been deported from the United States on two previous occasions. The first deportation occurred in 2007. This was followed by a second deportation in 2009.

Police released his booking photo:

Price has more:

Police believe Monroe was a rideshare operator who picked up Jackson and was taking him home. Monroe apparently pulled his car over to the shoulder to assist Jackson who had become ill. Shortly after that, the truck driven by Orrego-Savala crashed into the back of the car.

Statements from the state police indicate that both victims were outside of their 2018 Lincoln when the crash occurred. The impact threw one of the victims into the center lane of the highway where he was later struck by another vehicle. The coroner’s office pronounced both victims dead at the scene of the crash.

Orrego-Savala reportedly fled the scene on foot but state police troopers found him a short distance away from the scene of the crash and took him into custody. Orrego-Savala had no drivers license or insurance, officials stated.

Jackson, nicknamed “Pound Cake,” recently completed his second season with the Indianapolis Colts.

The Colts said Jackson “loved the game of football and we’re thankful to have been a part of his journey,” in a tweet responding to the news of Jackson’s death.